GT4 DVD-5 Work In Progress

I made some very good progress so far,dealing with 3 movies and the audio in the game.I used CubeMediaPlayer to downsample my vids to 25% from the original and extract the .wav files,TMPGenc to convert to a .m2v file,and PSSPlex to make the .pss munge files for the movies,and am using MFAudio for the music.So far I have saved around this much from just the movies 491MB and will save even more when I am done messing with the music in the game.I don't think it is enough space at the moment for Swap Magic so I am going to continue messing with the audio for right now.I can supply an example real soon of the audio I am about to input back into the game.All I am doing is decreasing the frequency in the audio so right now the frequency of the original audio files are 44100.I am changing the frequency to 24000 at the moment to downsize the audio in the game,and making sure the output is a SS2 file.I'm glad I didn't give up on this,because I think it is possible after looking at it more clearly.Will report back when I finished changing the frequency of all the audio files,and will supply one of the audio files in a minute.

Peace L-Burna

 

Here is a direct link to one of the audio files I messed with it should be the SS2_2.ss2 file from CubeMediaPlayer http://www.gigashare.com/files/download/2131182744.html .I would supply one of the movies I downsampled,but they are still kind of big in size.The smallest PSS file size I have that I downsampled is 46.6MB in size.

(Note:make sure you use CubeMediaPlayer to play the audio file or MFAudio either one should work)

Peace L-Burna

 

I forgot to add here is a link to get the MFAudio program if you need it http://www.gigashare.com/files/download/385047938.html .Sorry should have put that in my last post.

Peace L-Burna

 

@L-Burna. I'll mirror that MF Audio program on my site. The forum is kinda raw right now so you can pretty much ignore the rest, but the download speed should be a little faster and all the other utilities I've been using are there too.

Almost forgot. The link is http://simonjc.dyndns.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3

Just a temporary address. I'll update when it changes.

 

this might be a little bit off topic but is there any way to burn gt4 at all if there is and somones already posted it can you give me a link bci wanna back it up please help

 

Check the sticky topic "GT4 Burning issues" http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/190104
That one's now closed, but there are two ways so far, a dvd-9 and a partial dvd-5.

 

sonix has done it.


http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/212324

 

dayum liquid..you beat me too it, lol...i just read it myself...simpsim and l-burna, you all can get some sleep now..lol..sorry you guys weren't the first to do it..i really thought you all would be..haven't used the tool yet but if it's up to par like teh rest of his tool...it should knock it out pretty quick and easily...

 

lol

i really wanted them to do it first for the movies but this is fine. i'm gonna test it tomorrow. i appearenty misplaced my gt4 somewhere in my room lol

 

Hahaha lol yeah Sonix beat us to it,but still the movies are ripped out when you use the tool.Check it out alright,there is still a check involved dealing with the movies so yeah probably still needs some work on it.Very good progress none the less from Sonix though,if anyone could have made a tool for this game it would have to be one of the rippers from PS2ModsParadise or the great Sonix.They have a very wide knowledge of programming skills,so it was bound to happen .I haven't stopped working on it,but I do plan on testing this one technique out I am working on.He took some time off from working on Apache3,can't wait to see that program when it comes out.

 

Absolutely spot on. I'm certainly not a glory hunter, and whoever does it first has got my vote. Sonix has obviously been working on this rather quietly in the background, but in any case well done man! I'm just off to give him the thumbs up on the thread he's on but I'll be back when I've tested it.

 

Hmmm! Well I got the tool, set it away and it crashed right near to completion. I'll have another try later. Sonix said the tool was designed for PAL version, so maybe it's crashing because mine's NTSC.

Edit: Problem solved! just had to replace a couple of system files on the PC. Works now. Gonna have to have a play with some of the resulting files I think and see what I can find out.

2nd Edit: Just to update, I've given a copy of GT4 made with sonix' tool to my brother-in-law for testing and I can tell you so far that it works way better than any of the backups I've made to date. The loading times are much faster and there is a lot less disk activity going on. I think the main things Sonix found here are the file tables for the VOL file and also the extra check in the CORE.GT4. You honestly can't fault the guy. The tool itself is just pure simplicity too.

 

Yeah true,but the only bad thing is that I guess I see is not everyone can program the tools he makes.It would be awesome to see what he actually did,so people that don't have the experience in programming could make a rip of the newer games also.I don't actually faulty Sonix he is the real deal no doubt and all the peeps at PS2ModsParadise.I am not sure if anyone else sees it that way,but there has to be a manual way also.It would be cool to find another way,besides waiting on great programmers to make tools for the games with just the tools we have.I solute Sonix with his great work on the tool,but I still want to find another way because I honestly feel there is another way of messing with it.I'm not a glory hog,just want to see if there is a technique that can be done manually for newer games that come out.

 

you know this is a legend being born if not already..MAD respect sonix, and simpsim and L-Burna for all the time you have put into this game for EVERYONE elses sake...THANK YOU ALL

 

I apologize for my ignorance in advance! I am a complete noob at this. I used my original copy of GT4 I read it with DVD Decrypter, then used the new tool by Sonix. The result is 4 folders and 6 files. I have read for almost a day now, but I can not figure out how to rebuild this so I can burn my backup.Is there a tool to convert these to an iso or other format so I can burn it? I apologize if this has been answered already, but I have been reading stickys all day. I even read a tutorial on the GOW disk, but there are several differences in the backup methods. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thankyou !

 

You need to have the following files in your GT4 folder.
1. SYSTEM.CNF (.CNF extension might not show)
2. SCUS_973.28
3. CORE.GT4
4. IOPRP300.IMG
5. IRX (Folder)
6. NET (Folder)
7. EPSON (Folder)
5. GT4.VOL
6. GT4L1.VOL
After running sonix' tool, you'll have a GT4L1.VOL_OLD file as well, which you don't need.

You need CDVDGEN and IML2ISO available from http://www.sksapps.com/index.php?page=mis.html (Also On my site at http://simonjc.dyndns.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3 (Near the bottom somewhere, look for "rkit.zip")).

Open CDVDGEN Select "New Project" and then "DVD Master Disk" (The Middle one). You'll now see three buttons at the top of the window, "Volume", "Directory" and "Layout". Click on the "Volume" button. Fill in the "Disk Name" Field with "SCUS" and "97328", and change the "License Area" to "America" (For PAL version, it's "SCES" and "51719" and the area is "Europe"). Also change the "Volume" field to "GRANTURISMO4". You don't need to fill in any of the other fields (Well I didn't anyway). Next click on the "Directory" button. Using your gt4 folder drag the files [bold]IN THE ORDER ABOVE[/bold] from the folder in to the main window of CDVDGEN. When you've done that, click on "File" and "Export IML File". Save the file in your GT4 folder as GT4.IML and close CDVDGEN (You don't need to save anything else). That's the hard part done.

Open IML2ISO and browse to the IML file you just made and click "Start". Then put the kettle on, because it does take a few minutes to compile. Once it's finished you can close IML2ISO.

That's it! just burn the GT4.ISO with your fave burning proggy (I still prefer DVD Decrypter).

I hope that's easy enough for everybody to grasp.

 

Thanks a million simpsim1. I appreciate the quick reply! I accidently copied one file, that's how I got the extra. Hopefully with guys like you helping, I won't be a noob for too long. I'm excited on getting this file rebuilt, and burnt! Thanks again!

 

Simpsim1

Your directions were perfect! I followed them exactly, and I now have a working backup of my GT4 game. Thanks again for all the info.I have more reading to do, I want to backup my God of War game next.

 

Oh well! I got a 100% backed up version on DVD-5 that works with both modchip and Swap Magic. Big thanx to sonix and to Ps2asker for the rip tool and guides respectively.

That's it! Job done. Bye all till next time and thanx for sticking around!!

 

I followed simpsim's instructions exactly (but changing a few bits because mine is PAL), but when i click start in 'iml2iso', i get a message saying 'Code 204!!! file not found==> RX620S.RESGT4.ims'

Does anyone know what is wrong?